Authorities detonate suspicious package found at main Post Office in Susquehanna Twp.

Joe EliasAuthorities examine debris from a suspicious package that was detonated outside the U.S Post Office along Crooked Hill Road in Susquehanna Twp. just after midnight Tuesday.The state police bomb squad and federal authorities detonated a suspicious package early this morning at the main U.S. Post Office in Susquehanna Twp.

Investigators twice detonated the package, which they surrounded with postal service trucks beforehand.

The bomb squad, Susquehanna Twp. police and postal inspectors were summoned to the facility on Crooked Hill Road in the township after 9 p.m. The bomb squad and postal inspectors arrived at 11 p.m. and one inspector said they were treating the package as if it contained an improvised explosive device.

The package was in an isolated area in the building, which was open for employees arriving or leaving, observers said.

Monday was the 15th anniversary of the domestic terrorist attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City in which 168 people were killed.

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